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Koah pushes ads into AI apps while OpenAI lags behind

Koah, a company focused on AI startups and developers, is bringing sponsored advertisements to AI tools and ￰0￱ company, which has raised $5 million, believes integrating ads into AI apps and tools is the best way for developers to monetize their ￰1￱ Ventures, a venture capital (VC) firm, supported Koah during its seed round, according to data from ￰2￱ wants to monetize vibe-coded AI apps AI-generated ads are everywhere, but it’s rare to see ads when interacting with chatbots like ChatGPT or ￰3￱ course, these companies are capable of building this feature on their own. However, Koah is capitalizing on third-party builders that create various apps and tools on top of large models like ￰4￱ is serving users who are not paying a monthly subscription for an AI ￰5￱ company is targeting AI apps with a demographic outside the United States, like i n So uth America or ￰6￱ of such apps struggle to bring in revenue because it’s expensive to ￰7￱ fills this gap and provides devs with an ad-based monetization model.

Vibe-coded apps could turn into revenue gushers when integrated with sponsored ads from platforms like ￰8￱ is similar to the early days of Google and social media apps, also known as Web ￰9￱ started integrating ads across AI apps such as Luzia, Liner, and ￰10￱ advertisements are from UpWork, General Medicine, and ￰11￱ ads are labeled as sponsored content by ￰12￱ are programmed to pop up during relevant user ￰13￱ example, a query about website design could trigger an UpWork ad offering freelance ￰14￱ devs left waiting on revenue model Early last year, OpenAI introduced the GPT Store. It’s a place for developers to create customized GPTs and share them with ￰15￱ the time of launching the GPT Store, OpenAI said, “Users have already created over 3 million custom versions of ChatGPT.” Today, the GPT Store is crowded with millions of customized GPTs.

However, the developers of those GPTs are struggling to generate ￰16￱ promised to provide a revenue-sharing model with the devs of third-party ￰17￱ CEO Sam Altman said during DevDay in November 2023, “Revenue sharing is important to us. We’re going to pay people who build the most useful and the most-used GPTs a portion of our revenue.” OpenAI started testing the revenue-sharing model and partnered with a selected group of US-based ￰18￱ company announced the pilot phase in March of last ￰19￱ made no new announcements regarding the progress or wider availability of its proposed revenue-sharing ￰20￱ feedback from the developer community has been filled with frustration due to the unknown progress of this ￰21￱ to a report from The Information, the ChatGPT maker doubled its revenue this year, reaching $12 ￰22￱ month, Cryptopolitan reported that OpenAI raised $8.3 billion, valuing the company at $300 ￰23￱ with the massive revenue and funds raised, OpenAI is still ￰24￱ tech giant is spending heavily on operations compared to its ￰25￱ year, OpenAI spent $5 billion on operational ￰26￱ on internal estimates, it is expected to burn $8 billion this ￰27￱ $50 free to trade crypto when you sign up to Bybit now

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